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Measure the Man Today in Chicago the Democratic party is nominating its candidate for the presidency. Regardless of whom the Democratic choice may be, the nation must give him, during the next few months, the most serious study it has given any man in our time. He will be measured not only against the high office for which he is being proposed, but against the desperately hard task that would confront him in office. Tfys man who is chosen in November will be not so much honored as intrusted with a great responsibility. The state of the world today is little less than desperate. The next President should be one competent to understand this world condition and one with the intelligence and courage to use the force of America’s position to hasten world relief. He must be one who appreciates not only that any course which aids the rest of the world will aid America, but that America can not be helped for long at the expense of the rest of the world. At home the next President will have for his field of operations a land of idle industries, of citizens who wish to work, but are driven to exist on charity; a land of hunger and fear; such an America as we had thought never could be. It is an America past the aid of old remedies, an America that has used or wasted so great a part of Erich resources that it no longer can rest its hopes an all too generous Providence, a bruised and disisioned youth among the nations that has been compelled at last to face the facts of life. The most important fact in the realm of international relations is that stated above, that no nation can prosper long in the world of today at the expense of other nations. And the most important fact of internal political economy is that no nation can be assured of permanent prosperity that permits any group of its citizens to prosper at the expense of the remainder. America has been late in recognizing this truth, because life on the whole has been easy for America. But now we know. We know that class legislation has run its course. We know that, stated in its best terms, the theory that wealth conferred upon those in the upper stratum does not seep down to all those below, that only the reverse process contains the making of a sound economic structure. And the man who next takes up the leadership of this distressed country must know it. He must know that the goal is nothing short of the happiness of the average man, woman, and child, that consideration for the whole people must come first. He must not only know this, but must have the courage to act upon his knowledge. The instrument for his purpose will be in his hand. The American form of government was not devised for a few, but for all. It never has, however, and never will function of itself. And it will not function—certainly not after having been allowed to collapse—in the hands of a weak man. So look to the man to be named today. Estimate his convictions and the courage that lies behind them. Consider whether he can meet the test presented by America and the world.

Smith—Win or Lose Whether he is nominated or not, Alfred E. Smith will go forth from the Democratic national convention of 1932 a bigger man than ever. Should he win, he will be elected. Should he lose, he is not through. His stature grows. His performance during the convention has endeared him even to the hearts of those who vote against him. He could have injected bitterness—for a man who loses because of his religion has reason to be bitter. Instead, he injected humor, good cheers sportsmanship. He worked in the ranks, and to him goes the immediate credit for the greatest platform in the political history of this generation. Day by day, since his arrival in Chicago, he has put party above personal interest. He is the spiritual father of the hnest document v/ithin our memory. It is, therefore, only natural that his record, his personality, his performance, drew forth one of the finest tributes ever paid to a human being. The speech by Governor Ely will live as long as there is a literature of politics. Win or lose, that tribute stands. What Ely said about the need of the times will rise again and again in the memory of those who read or heard it—- “ Shall we admit that education and prosperity have softened our muscles, drained our vitality, and left us only speculating, doubting, equivocating, and polite gentlemen? Thank God, no. There is a man who sits amongst us who is a modern Andrew Jackson. You know who he is. t "Let us end government by doubt; let us establish a government of decision, of action and of progress. “If we could recall from the shades of a retreating past one of them to lead us now; if it remained only to lift our voices and nominate him by acclamation to show the way, would it be Jefferson, the political philosopher, or the dogged and determined Cleveland? “Would our eyes turn to the scholarly and idealistic Wilson, or do these times demand the rough, yet tender, rude yet appealing, fiery yet sensible and potent decision of Andrew Jackson?” Whether Alfred E. Smith is nominated or not, this generation and future generations will sense the prophetic nature of that declaration. The times call for a Jackson.

History and Journalism Death of Dr. John Bach McMaster marks the passing of one of the most productive and entertaining of Amerio-n historians. There is a story that this young ers*.while professor of civil engineering at Princeton submitted the manuscript of the first volume of his “History of the People of the United States” to Daniel Appleton, the publisher. Appleton put it away and forgot it. Stumbling over it one day, he was embarrassed vastly at his neglect. Stalling for time to think up an explanation, he took the manuscript home to read to his family. The latter were so thrilled and diverted that Appleton decided to take a chance on the expensive and dubious venture of publishing a monumental historical series which ultimately went into nine volumes Whether this tale is strictly accurate or not, certainly experience justified Appleton’s Judgment. McMaster’s work was one of the most relevant and interesting historical sets ever published in this country or abroad. He departed from the dreary annals of politics and wars and gave us brilliant cross-sections of the life and thoughts of our people from 1789 to 1865. All of this he presented in juicy narrative, which could be enjoyed by any literate person of even a moderate intelligence quotient. McMaster has been compared to Jo|pa Richard

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Green, great English historian. This Is not unjust to either, though their conceptions, sources and methods of working were rather different. They both symbolize the revolution of the “new history” against the notion of history as superficial “past politics.” They both made it clear that nations do something more than fight and electioneer. But there is another respect in which McMaster is of more than usual interest to the journalist and publicist. His career and achievements offer a devastating exposure of the shallow character of the arrogance shown by professional students of history toward the journalist. McMaster gathered much of his materials through a painstaking and industrious reading of local newspapers. The term “journalist” is a favorite epithet of a professor of history for a man whose work he does not like. Journalism is supposed to symbolize perfectly inaccuracy, superficiality and unreliability in chronicling the affairs of a nation. It so happens, however, that a trained Journalist is rather unusually well prepared to gather materials accurately. He is normally a specialist in some field of reporting. He has had long experience in rapid observation and accurate recording. He has background, insight, technique and facility for his work. His product is likely to be a reasonably faithful reproduction of the facts, unless he is working in the midst of popular hysteria or has his work butchered by a rewrite man or makeup necessities. But his achievements are viewed as trivial trash by the austere professor. These trashy journalistic efforts in due course of time are bound up and ultimately find their way into a library. After a generation or so, along comes the solemn professor of history. He adjusts his spectacles and settles down to work.

He turns the pages, now literally yellow, and copies, paraphrases and weaves. In due time he has a remote mosaic compounded of the work of hundreds of reporters, running over many years and covering activities in many areas. Thousands of footnotes, giving specific reference to the myriad of “superficial” journalistic sources consulted, are inserted. The manuscript is sent tc the printer and the book is crowned by a prize given by some esoteric organization of historical scholars. The final product, created out of thousands of minor alleged superficialities and inaccuracies, is held to be impressively sound and reliable. But the professor has relied on the work of the journalists who preceded him. His results can not be more reliable than their earlier efforts. Indeed, they rarely can be as competent. ' The reporter was directly on the job. He knew his task as a specialist. He lived at the time and knew his surroundings. The professor came on the scene later, is out of touch wtih people and events chronicled. He can have only a second-hand and remote contact with the issues, events and peoples he is endeavoring to describe. It is an undeniable fact that the historian who uses newspapers never can be quite as competent as the journalist who originally gathered the materials. Journalism undoubtedly has enough sins to answer Tor. But the historian is in no position to cast stones. Only in proportion as journalism becomes more accurate and competent can many types of historical work be improved as to reliability of content.

A Hopeful Trend Every one is watching these days for signs of a brightening in the industrial sky. The Alexander Hamilton institute believes it has seen one. It reports finding encouragement in the fact that prices of manufactured goods at last are beginning to decline more rapidly than the prices of raw materials. The fact there has been a wide gap between these two price ranges has acted to rob the raw material producers of purchasing power, and this has been one of the fundamental reasons for • the steady decline in business activity. If the gap continues to narrow until a real price equilibrium is reached, a noticeable gain in commercial and industrial activity should follow. An inventor claims that he has perfected a rivet bolt which will reduce noise to 1 per cent of its present volume. That must be what you would call a neighbor-saving device. Scientists in Asia claim to have discovered the cradle of mankind. Now they can start hunting for the hand that rocked. The harvest has started out in Kansas, but it won't be official until we get the first picture of Marion Talley standing beside a shock of wheat.

Just Every Day Sense BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

DAY after day comes queries from heavy-hearted women whose sweethearts or husbands have lost their ardor. This perpetual plaint of outraged love resounds over the whole earth and will resound, I suspect, so long as men and women endure. And there is very little we can do about it, save to try to understand what lies beneath these infidelities—for we may be sure that something vast and deep and potent does lie there. Men do not wander down primrose paths because they desire evil and ugliness, or because they are by nature bent upon philandering. They do so because, although they may know it not, they are engaged upon an endless quest after beauty and truth. Like women, they are incurably romantic and life offers them so little that is splendid. The stolidest man has his dreams and these dreams usually assume a feminine form, although they may have their inception in far more subtle longings than those of sex. # a THUS sometimes the husband of an impeccable wife may stray. When he does so, he is a tragic as well as a culpable figure. The life of the average man is singularly devoid of either beauty or romance. He lives in a "world of machines. His existence stretches before him, harsh, arid, empty of all imagined loveliness, and with old age and death shadowy in the far distance. In such a world he dares not expose, even ,to himself, the essential softness of his nature, or the urgency of his secret desires, lest he see strange things that might shame what he is pleased to call his manhood. So he only can snatch briefly and momentarily at his lovely, illusions. lie is caught in a net of materialism from which there is no escape except in dreams. And, more often than not, anew woman in his life may be for him only the symbol of the thing within him that is deeper and more intense than low, something that has no semblance of reality, but always is and forever his quest for the unobtainable. To be able to understand this human trait is to b able to forgive a man things.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says:

The Democratic Party, in Its Platform, Has Given the Country a Much-Needed Example of Courage and Initiative. NEW YORK, July I.—The Democratic party has done more than write a platform short enough to read, plain enough to understand and frank enough to challenge confidence. It has given the country a muchneeded example of courage and initiative. The psychological effect will be as profound as the political effect. For the first time in many years, the American people are promised definite and constructive action with regard to several of their major problems. For the first time since Woodrow Wilson left office, they see signs of real leadership on the horizon. You are going to see things happen before November. You are going to see the American people put forth greater efforts because of their renewed hope, and you are going to see conditions improve as the result. This is one occasion when the Democratic party responded to national need and did something that was of more importance than clinching an election. * Clear Stand Taken A SIMPLE declaration favoring repeal of the eighteenth amendment is admittedly the high light of the Democatic platform, but that does not exhaust its virtue by any means. Consistent with such declaration, it calls for restoration of state rights and local self-government, for reduction of federal expenses by 5 per cent, for a tariff that will produce revenue and equalize conditions without destroying foreign trade, for apportionment of taxes in accordance with the ability to pay, for a public works program to help relieve unemployment, for a sounder and more equitable distribution of credit, and for a cessation of this craze over mergers and consolidations by which certain huge financial interests are drowning the American people in pools of controlled and manipulated wealth.

Party Hardly Can Lose REGARDLESS of who is nominated, one finds it hard to see how the Democratic party can lose. With that proposition in mind, it would be unfair not to give credit where credit is due. This platform, which has lifted the Democratic party from a level of mere opposition to one of obvious leadership in national affairs, which has met with a favorable reception by press and public, which amounts to little less than a guarantee of victory next fall, and which comes as a welcome tonic in this hour of bewilderment, reflects the views of no man so faithfully as those of Alfred Emanuel Smith. If you have read Mr. Smith’s statements and recommendations during the last thre years, you have read the Democratic platform. In all essentials, it is his plan of procedure, put in crisp, concise form. By every law of logic, he should be selected to carry it out. If he is not; if some other man gets the benefit of his wonderful foresight; he still should be remembered as its author, not in the sense of phrase-making, but in the sense of genius. u u n Issues Are Classified, Regardless of who is nominated, the great issues have been clarified. Those who believe in bold, constructive action, particularly as it can be had through the emancipation of people from fear, standpattism, manipulated credit, artificial prosperity, and bossed politics, will experience no difficulty in choosing between the two great parties. The Republicans have straddled, sidestepped, evaded and told us for the hundredth time “not to rock the boat.” The Democrats have come clean. A curious reversal of roles! a vivid illustration of how a crisis produces its remedy.

People’s Voice

Editor Times—What is to become of the working man who toils on our public highway for 15 cents and 20 cents an hour for eight or nine hours a day? This totals about $lO for a w r eek’s work and does not pay rent and grocery bills, let alone the back bills. This is driving men to become criminals, as they can not take care of a family on this scale. Children under these conditions are not fed properly and are undernourished and become mentally and physically undeveloped. This is causing our state institutions to become crowded, not with criminals, as we are made - to believe, but with undeveloped children who should £e cared for. This is causing an extra expense on the taxpayer by our state neglecting the individual. Trucks are hired for- as low as 2!s and 3 cents a mile. We should have a state wage scale to protect the laborer and also to protect contractors and keep them from taking advantage of the workingmen. According to the state highway department, business cars cost approximately 10 cents a mile. In comparison to more than SBOO that • it cost our state government to convey 300 ex-service men across the state of Indiana any man working trucks under a contractor on the highways could have furnished transportation to Washington and would have had a nice profit on this at the wages they are paid now. Our nation’s cry is to start construction as soon as possible for the relief of unemployed. As long as conditions exist they are not helping the unemployed. No man is lucky who can not get a wage that will support his family, | especially on jobs that are tempo- ! rary, as construction of our highways are, but five to six months’ jobs at the longest, and they are supposed to make enough to live on for the entire year. This can not be done until there is a uniform wage for season work. C. DALTON. Newcastle, Lad. '-*■ ■-r 1

You’ve Got to Give the Old Man Credit!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Quick Treatment Needed for Dog Bite

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hysreia, the Health Magazine. IN the summer come the “dog days,” so-called because for many years it was believed that the danger from mad dogs was greater in summer than at any other time. Os course, there is no good evidence to support this point of view, but bites; of mad dogs can take place at any time. They are likely to be more frequent from April to September than from October to March, because dogs run loose more often and more generally in the spring and summer time than they do in the winter. In a recent consideration of this subject, the commissioner of health of Oklahoma found that the state laboratory examined 374 heads of animals that transmitted rabies or hydrophobia during the first half of 1932 and 169 of the animals concerned were found to be infected with the disease. When a mad dog bites another dog or another animal or a human

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CHICAGO, July I.—l’d rather be right than Roosevelt. And if I had to be a Democrat, why then I’d be A1 Smith. If and when A1 fails to get the nomination, I know a young producer who would love to feature him in an intimate revue, for, in spite of competition, Alfred E. Smith has proved himself the greatest performer of all the troupe now playing in Chicago. This might seem merely the reiteration of a well-known circumstance, but for the fact that there was doubt this time before Alcame through. He didn't rehearse very well. The Huey Longs, Alfalfa Bills and other acts from the small time seemed to have caught the public eye before the big show went on. Even some of Al’s best friends went around before the first night, shaking their heads mournfully, and saying that the hop on the fast one wasn’t there any more. He was a good fellow when he had it, was about the best that they could muster. And then Senator Walsh said, “The chair recognizes the Honorable Alfred E. Smith, a delegate from the state of New York.” And there was for a split second that curious humid hush which comes just before the wind sweeps over the valley and the lightning begins to shoot its fangs at chimneys and tall" maples. It was so in the Chicago stadium, for the storm broke in the topmost gallery and swept down across the forest of delegates and up to the platform wall and over. A1 stood there with the wind of popular acclaim. beating around his head and shoulders. And he liked it. # # # Thrill of a Lifetime I DON’T know how he felt about it, but any man would be a fool to swap those minutes for a term, for two terms, for an eternity in the White House. When did 20,000 people ever reach out in that way and pat a President between the shoulder blades and cry out to him, “Attaboy!”

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being, the disease is transmitted by the saliva which contains the poisonous virus. The time when the disease attacks is from fourteen days on, the average period in man necessary for the development of the disease' being forty days. Rabies is primarily a disease of dogs; however, it can also affect any other animal. Contrary to common belief, it is rare in cats. Health officers now recognize that it is the stray and homeless dog that is more frequently responsible for transmitting this disease. The dog kept in a good home usually is watched carefully, kept from contact with the savage dogs, and not so likely to be involved as the one that runs free. However, any dog suddenly may bite a human being under provocation or without provocation. Because of the terrible possibilities of rabies, there is only one course to follow after a dog bite—

No, we vote for Presidents. We pull the lever and put ’em away and forget about them. The galleries cried, “Al! Al!” as if their hearts would break, and the man from Fulton fish market smiled for awhile and then began to cry. Suddenly he broke through the din with that curious voice, half Caruso and half Tenth avenue. When Al speaks, the nose has it. It cut like a sharp blade, a fish knife, through the uproar. Al carries his own gavel in his larynx. He began to operate on Cordell Hull, who already was cut and bleeding. “The fact,” rasped Smith, “that the senator only found out in the last three days that there is sentiment for repeal, just is too bad.” With a right and a left, a left and a right, Smith tore into the arguments of the Tennessee dry and the crowd stood up as if this truly were a main bout for a title and not merely a political convention. Cordell Hull had quoted from a statement of Al's, made during the 1928 campaign, which obviously was far less dripping in its temper than the majority prohibition plank for which Smith now was speaking. n tt tt Ahead of His Time “ r T"'HAT was four years ago,” i A said Smith savagely, “did j the senator agree with me then—he did not. And because I hap- j pened to be four years ahead of my time, look what happened to me.” I think it is true that Al does move, and I am for the men who know the difference between little old last year's tamel and a present porcupine. And even so I believe that the most progressive! and radical of us still should adhere to some fixed point, and tie the craft of our hopes to some an- j cient pier upon occasion, so that i those who have been far away upon returning will know where to find us. Al referred to the Republican convention and said, “I promised

the animal should be penned up or kept secured for a least ten days, during which time it either will die or develop symptoms of hydrophobia if it has that disease. Should the animal show symptoms, the Pasteur treatment should be begun immediately. In case a person has been bitten on the face, neck or head, it is advisable to begin the Pasteur treatment at once, without even waiting to see whether or not the animal develops symptoms, because of the special danger associated with bites in these regions. Far too often when police are called to kill a dog suspected of hydrophobia the dog is shot in the head or the head crushed with a club. This should not be done, because it is difficult for a laboratory to make a satisfactory examination when the brain has been injured. The diagnosis is made by finding the Negri bodies in stained specimens taken from the brain.

(deals and opinions expressed in this column are those of tne of America's most interesting writers and are presented without reeard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor

myself to listen to it on the radio.” And the walls came tumbling down. tt tt tt Al Stands Fast I SUPPOSE that, among the many reasons which induced millions to vote against Al Smith four years ago, not an inconsiderable number of thousands were alienated by the fact that he chose to call the instruments which brings crooners to our homes “the raddio.” I did not sit in upen party counsels, but it is inevitable that this fact was called to his attention by friends and advisers. But Al is no man to swap a pronunciation while crossing a stream. He will change neither a “and” nor a devotion, no matter how the vote may go. Raddio it was and raddio it shall remain, though it splits the solid south and tears untrammeled democracy asunder. Accordingly, when his name was placed in nomination, I did a thing which is against the rules of the convention correspondents’ union and of other organizations to which I was committed. I joined the parade under the floor and shouted “Smith! Smith! Smith!” My cold-blooded, or at least my fairly tepid, newspaper judgment assures me that he isn’t going anywhere. And yet the twenty thousand and one others never had a misgiving, we'd like to go along. (CoDvrisrht. 1932. bv The Times)

Questions and Answers

How did Virginia get the nickname “Old Dominion?” The name dates from restoration of the Stuarts to the throne of England in 1660, when Virginia was classed with England, Ireland and Scotland, as one of the “dominions” of the English king. In which country were cross-word puzzles first published? In England, during the nineteenth century. They were elementary and were published in books of general puzzles for the nursery. By 1923, they had taken both the United States and England by storm. What state has the shortest residence requirement for filing a divorce suit? Nevada. Residence requirement, six weeks. Next come Idaho and Arkansas, which both require at least ninety days’ residence. What is the chemical name for banana oil? Amyl acetate. What is sake ? The national beverage of Japan, made chiefly from fermented rice.

Daily Thoughts

Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. —Ecclesiastes 4:6. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best; and he whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest.—James Martineau.

JULY 1, 1933

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

Plan Advanced to Put Unco*, ployed Chemists at Work on Research for Public, Good. A PLAN to accelerate acientifio research through government subsidies to put unemployed chemists at work in university laboratories, has been suggested by the New York committee on unemployment and relief for chemists and chemical engineers. The plant, supported by Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, one of the official journals of the American Chemical Society, would put these chemists to work on funda- J mental research problems. “Public money spent in welldirected research which these unem- ~ poyed men can perform, goas far beyond relief, and becomes a reason, ably good investment,” the journal says. While at the present time there is a widespread demand for curtail, ment of government expenditures, there can be no denying that there is much sound sense in what Industrial and Engineering Chemistry says. All unemployment is deplorable, but it is doubly so when trainee men of high talent are forced to be idle. These men could be engaged in research, the eventual value of which no man can prophesy. There are many authorities who feel that it will be some new scientific discovery which will pull industry out of its present slump. < a ft a e Need for Research THE great rise of Germany prioi? to the World war was the great development of scientific research, which paved the way for expansion in chemical and allied industries. “Many leaders have pointed out that we have within the last generation drawn upon our accumulation of knowledge at a far greater rate than we have added to it” Industrial and Engineering Chemistry continues. “The enforced cessation of research in some industrial laboratories, the decline in supported fellowships and the inability of qualified workers to remain in post-grad-uate studies threatens to reduce still further our fund of new knowledge. “The plan deserves the support of educational institutions, of the chemical profession, and of the public at large.” According to the plan as outlined by the New York committee, public or semi-public funds would be used to pay salaries of the chemists while the laboratories in which the work was done would pay for materials and overhead. The committee states that department heads of almost every university and technical institution in the New York metropolitan area have approved the plan, if funds can be found to make it work. It is also stated that many university authorities are eager to see more research work undertaken in fundamental chemical fields. They point out that in recent years, much of the research was highly specialized, often consisting of work on specific industrial problems carried out with donations for | research furnished by corporations * seeking investigations in their own special field.

Staffs Dismissed INDICATIONS are that several large industrial organizations have dismissed research staffs in recent months, the committee says, in pointing out the need for keeping up research work. The committee has 632 unemployed chemists registered with it.' The great majority of these, the committee says, are research chem- | ists. The committee estimates, how- : ever, that there must be about 1.500 I unemployed chemists in the New I York area. While the committee is a local New York committee, and therefore interested only in solving itw own local problem, it is pointing a method which well might be con. sidered in other parts of the United States. Scientific research has brought the world to its present stage of in# dustrial development. It also maj> be true that science and engineer* in &> by making mass production *0 simple a matter, has helped ushe* in the present depression. But the blame in all fairness carf s not be put upon the scientists sol 1 doing their job so well. Economies and the social scienceg have been unable to keep up with physical science. At any ra£e, it seems reasonable to suppose that the present situa# tion is one in which we used all the wisdom which the world can muster. Therefore, it would seem that the plan suggested by the New York committee merits careful studv and consideration. It is a generally accepted fad that those companies able to keep up their scientific research will emerge from the depression in the strongest condition. They will be ready to take advantage of the new day. Might not the nation as a whole benefit by aceelerating scientific research at this time?

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BRITISH MAKE GAINS July 1

ON July 1, 1918, British troops attacked the German front west of Albert In the Picardy salient, created by the first of the great German drives, and reported satisfactory progress. Furious counter-attacks, delivered by a fresh German division thrown into the front lines to check the British advance, were beaten off. German planes bombed Paris in another night raid, but damage was slight. Italian troops captured Col del* Rosso and repulsed new attacks on Monte di Valbella, which they had taken the day before. Austrian losses were heavy. Vladivostok. Russian Pacific port, w-as completely in control of Czechoslovakian troops, advices from Tokia J stated.